Mom revived after fire thanks to 10-year-old son

A 10-year-old Cambridge boy may well have saved his mother’s life early Saturday morning.

Matt Dunning

A 10-year-old Cambridge boy may well have saved his mother’s life early Saturday morning.

According to police reports, the boy called 911 around 3:45 a.m. March 22 to report a fire in his apartment. Police said the boy shared the apartment with his mother, 46, at 51 Columbia St. Police did not release the identity of the boy or his mother.

According to reports, the boy told emergency dispatchers that a fire had started in the bathroom. Fire and police officials said they arrived to find the apartment filled with smoke, and a woman — later identified as the boy’s mother — submerged in water in the bathtub.

Police said the woman was only partially clothed, unresponsive and was not breathing. The responding officer, Peter Neal, also noted he and two other officers couldn’t initially find a pulse on the woman. Firefighters helped the officers pull the woman out of the tub and put her on a stretcher. The three officers were able to revive the woman using CPR. She was then transported to Mass. General Hospital for treatment.

Police said officers took the boy to his grandmother’s house for the night.

According to reports, it was later determined that the woman might have been smoking in the bathroom before the fire started.